Things that ARE broke in Windows 10:
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1) This is a function of moving away from legacy software, code, and menus, while at the same time extending an olive branch to those people still using those functions by making it easier to use the new menus. Admittedly it's a bit annoying when you have to jump through hoops to configure your display, but that's a problem caused by GPU makers, not Microsoft. NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel all have different ways to make the GPU perform the same function, and some standardisation is needed with the way the drivers communicate with the OS.
2) I haven't had this in a while. This function requires that applications keep their app manifests updated to let Windows know that it's going to be the default for certain files. It's not Microsoft's fault that developers aren't following standards in their software.
3) See 1). No-one promised that it would be an easy transition, but it's one that's getting easier to gel with as time goes by. Because of the cross-pollination of Windows Phone and Windows, there's a certain drive in the company to have most things look and act the same way no matter what device you're on. There'll be a lot of trial an error before this is settled, and it's a problem that Apple and Google ignore by designing and trying to keep different UIs up to date and somewhat cohesive.
4) I've seen none of these issues, and I'm on a system with a Killer NIC, and I've had many other bugs with how Windows approaches reporting on the network hardware. None of them are deal-breakers though, even to noob end-users.
5) Telemetry isn't a privacy invasion. If you're going to argue a policy the company has rigorously and rigidly adopted, complain about automatic updates and the ways in which the system pushes updates for hardware you may not want.
6) Never had or ever seen this issue on a machine before, either in-store, or a custom-built one that I've assembled, but Mail did have its fair share of problems in the beginning right after launch. Fixing Mail also required changes to how universal apps launched in the sandbox, so those issues should be fixed now.
7) If you do an upgrade from 7 or 8.1, Photo Viewer is still an option because it wasn't disabled during the update.
Here's how you can enable it on machines that have had a clean install and not an upgrade.
8) Unpin them from the Start Menu then and replace them with shortcuts to folders or other menu items. You don't have to use them. I know that's not a fix, but it's been this way since Windows 8, and this is the path Microsoft's going to trod for a good while. Universal apps are great stuff, but their implementation still needs work.
9) Edge is a great browser right now, but it lacks extensions. Those are coming in June for non-insiders.
10) This I agree with. It's an inane requirement that Microsoft pushes on people, and the way they've been putting their services in the limelight has slowly driven people back to older OSes or reconsidered running OS X or Linux. There are great benefits attached to using a Microsoft account, but I'm loathe to use one when I'm trying to share files across a home network that will never, ever, see a homegroup being made.
11) It's a reflection on the direction the company's been pushing these teams in, and often they all go in different directions. I believe that once this stuff is ironed out and implemented in a standard way, everyone, not just Microsoft, will stand to benefit from deeper OS integration. OneDrive integration has always been sketchy anyway, and Dropbox is still superior to every other offering.
I wouldn't say "thank God I don't have to use it" because as a technician or sysadmin, or a network engineer, it always makes more sense to use the right tool for the job rather than try to shoehorn something else in that works, but isn't a good fit. Windows 10 will work for some people and not for others, and at the moment that's fine. It'll be a while before we have something magical like Windows 7 again.
Better security for one.
I also think it's got better protection regarding ransomware since MSCE rebranded as Windows Defender is included by default and updated every day.
My God, fonts and languages in Windows have been the bane of my existence. So much buggy.
It's getting ridiculously powerful now. Has integration into some of the really cool things Microsoft's trying to do. If I were still a sysadmin, I'd be stocking up on Powershell certs like crazy because it's addictive stuff.
I'll eventually move my benchmarking routines into Powershell scripts, and will finally have a single batch file that can run on its own while I go off and do something else, and it won't conk out occasionally like other applications/
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